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  • The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

    Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander

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    One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism.

  • Zen and the Birds of Appetite

    Thomas Merton

    Paperback

    Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners.

  • Baudelaire: Critical study

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    Paperback

    Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. We may often disagree with his interpretations of the...

  • Seven Types of Ambiguity

    William Empson

    Paperback

    First published in 1930, Seven Types of Ambiguity has long been recognized as a landmark in the history of English literary criticism.

  • The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud

    Henry Miller

    Paperback

    This study is not literary criticism but a fascinating chapter in Miller's own spiritual autobiography.